Few studies dealing with the risk of infectious of nervous system and the utility of lumbar puncture and of emergent neuroimaging among patients with simple febrile seizure between 3 and 11 months age and with complex seizure has been reported. None of these studies was multicentric. Recommendations about management of these children are heterogeneous.

The investigators aim to study by an observational retrospective multicentric study the rate of infectious of central nervous system among patients with a complex febrile seizure and among patients between 3 and 11 months age with simple febrile seizure.

This was a retrospective cohort review of consecutive patients admitted in 7 pediatric emergency departments in Ile-de-France between 2007 and 2011. All clinically well-apparent children 3 to 11 months of age with a first simple febrile seizure were included in the study. All children between 3 months and 5 years with a complex febrile seizure were included

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

febrile (>38°)

Seizure

Exclusion Criteria:

previous non febrile seizure

known trauma

immunodeficiancy status

Underlying illness

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01694524